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On April 1, a TikTok user named @heartzz.kyra posted a slideshow with the caption “Proof that women don’t care about looks.” Among the photos of niche fictional men and oddly specific aesthetic moments, one slide stood out. It was not a person. It was a math equation. 7×7=49. The video hit 38 million views in… Read more: TikTok Decided 7×7=49 Is Hot. The Reason Is Stranger Than the Joke.

Fire First, Automate Later Here’s a timeline that reads like a corporate dystopia speed-run. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) lost nearly 40% of its workforce since October 2024. Entire teams vanished. The digital services unit 18F, home to almost 100 tech specialists who actually built things for the government, was shuttered completely. The Public… Read more: The US Government Fired 40% of an Agency, Then Asked AI to Do Their Jobs

A cartoon mouse in a fedora is pointing a Tommy gun at you. The gun is bending like a garden hose. The barrel wiggles with every shot. And somehow, this is one of the best-reviewed shooters of 2026. MOUSE: P.I. For Hire launched today, April 16, on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch… Read more: A 1930s Cartoon Style Is Now the Hottest Thing in Gaming. Here Is Why.

Mechanical Keyboards Explained: The Complete Beginner Guide Mechanical keyboards have gone from niche hobby to mainstream obsession. Whether you are a gamer hunting for faster response times, a writer who wants a better typing feel, or just someone tired of mushy keys, this guide breaks down everything you need to know before buying your first… Read more: Mechanical Keyboards Explained: The Complete Beginner Guide

There’s a number floating around this week that should bother you: 28.3%. That’s the percentage of Americans who regularly use generative AI, according to the 2026 Stanford AI Index, the most comprehensive annual report on the state of artificial intelligence. The country that builds the most AI models, hosts the most data centers, and pours… Read more: AI Spread Faster Than the Internet, But America Barely Uses It

One Rock, 225 Meters of Destruction Sometime in spring 2024, a rock travelling at several kilometers per second slammed into the Moon from the south-southwest. Nobody saw it happen. There was no sound, no shockwave you could feel, no headline. The Moon just quietly gained a new scar the size of two football fields. Scientists… Read more: Something Hit the Moon So Hard It Erased Other Craters. Scientists Just Found the Scar.

The leak dropped today via an Indonesian game ratings board that apparently cannot keep a secret, and now the internet is arguing about a pirate game from 2013. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag is coming back, officially titled Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, and it is not just a fresh coat of paint. Ubisoft is adding… Read more: Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Leaked: They Fixed the Wrong Thing

How Cats See the World: The Science of Feline Vision How cats see the world is one of those questions that sounds simple until you dig into the science. Cats do not see the way we do. Their eyes evolved for a completely different set of priorities: hunting in dim light, tracking fast-moving prey, and… Read more: How Cats See the World: The Science of Feline Vision

Back in 2021, an anonymous user on Agora Road’s Macintosh Cafe (a forum that sounds like it serves espresso alongside conspiracy theories) published a post titled “Dead Internet Theory: Most Of The Internet Is Fake.” The idea was simple and paranoid: most of what you see online isn’t made by humans. It’s bots, algorithms, and… Read more: The Dead Internet Theory Was Right: Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online

There are roughly 150 million Scrabble sets in circulation across the planet. That number covers 29 languages, family game nights, competitive tournaments with actual prize money, and approximately one million arguments about whether “qi” is a valid word. The whole thing started with one unemployed architect counting letters. The Architect Who Lost Everything Alfred Mosher… Read more: The Man Who Counted Every Letter in the New York Times

Aza Raskin invented infinite scroll in 2006, regrets it deeply, and estimates it costs humanity 200,000 hours of attention per day. None of this has stopped anyone.

12,000 songs. That’s not a typo, and it’s not counting remixes or alternate takes. That’s the number of songs Asha Bhosle recorded across her career. The Guinness Book of World Records made it official in 2011: the most recorded artist in music history, of any genre, of any country, ever. She died today in Mumbai,… Read more: The Woman Who Recorded More Songs Than Anyone in History Died Today

The Man Who Said He Might Never Tour Again Just Started a New Band Six weeks ago, Trent Reznor told a crowd in Tulsa that he didn’t know if Nine Inch Nails would ever tour again. On Friday night, he walked onto the Sahara Stage at Coachella with a brand new project, a surprise album… Read more: Trent Reznor Said He Might Never Tour Again, Then Started a New Band at Coachella

A Superconductor That Refuses to Stay Dead There is a small, dark crystal made of uranium and tellurium sitting in a lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It does something that, by every rule in physics, it should not be able to do. When you blast it with a magnetic field strong… Read more: This Superconductor Dies in a Magnetic Field, Then Comes Back to Life. Physicists Are Calling It the Lazarus Phase.

Emma Straub went on a New Kids on the Block cruise and came back with a novel. That sentence alone should tell you everything about where we are as a culture in 2026. American Fantasy, published April 7 by Riverhead Books, takes place aboard a cruise ship of the same name. The premise: all five… Read more: A Boyband Cruise Ship Full of Screaming Fans Is the Novel 2026 Deserves

Seven Years of Work. Eighty Percent Done. Then the Phone Call. Imagine spending seven years building something. You watch it grow from a pitch document into a living, breathing world. Your team pours thousands of hours into it. You are almost at the finish line, somewhere around 80% complete. Then someone tells you it is… Read more: The Last of Us Online Was 80% Done When Naughty Dog Killed It. The Director Found Out 24 Hours Before You Did.

Somewhere inside your skull, right now, a slow stream of fluid is quietly hauling waste out of your brain. Not through your bloodstream. Through a completely separate drainage system that scientists just confirmed exists in living humans for the first time. The discovery, published by researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina, centers on… Read more: Your Brain Has a Hidden Drain That Takes Out the Trash. Scientists Just Caught It Working.

Table of Contents What Does It Mean to Run AI Locally? Why Run AI on Your Own Machine? Hardware You Actually Need The Best Tools for Running Local AI Step-by-Step: Your First Local AI Chat Models Worth Trying in 2026 Limitations and Honest Trade-Offs FAQ You can run AI locally on your own computer, right… Read more: How to Run AI Locally on Your Computer: The Complete 2026 Guide

Four Humans Just Traveled Farther From Earth Than Anyone in History On Monday, April 6, at 15:58 GMT, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion capsule quietly broke a record that had stood for 55 years. The Artemis II crew, currently on a ten-day flyby of the Moon, surpassed the farthest distance any human has ever traveled… Read more: Artemis II Just Broke a 55-Year-Old Record. The One Apollo 13 Set by Accident.

Plug Your Laptop Into a Wall. See What Happens. Somewhere in Brooklyn, there is a USB stick poking out of a brick wall. It has been there since 2010. If you bring your laptop, crouch down, and plug in, you can access whatever files the last stranger left behind. Music, manifestos, cat photos, love letters… Read more: There Are USB Sticks Hidden in Walls Around the World. They Want You to Plug In.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google walk into a room. No, this is not the setup for a joke. These three companies have spent the last few years trying to outbuild, outspend, and outmarket each other in the most expensive tech race since the space program. And now they are sharing intelligence like old war buddies, because… Read more: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Just Formed an Alliance Because China Cloned Their AI Models

A $23 Million Toilet Just Became the Most Famous Bathroom in History Four astronauts launched toward the Moon on April 1. Within hours, the toilet broke. Not the engines. Not the navigation system. Not the heat shield that would need to survive 5,000 degrees on reentry. The toilet. The $23 million, 3D-printed titanium, Universal Waste… Read more: NASA’s $23 Million Space Toilet Broke on Day 1 of the Artemis II Moon Mission

Your Psychiatrist Might Be a Chatbot Now Utah just gave an AI chatbot the green light to renew psychiatric prescriptions. No doctor in the loop. No second opinion. Just you, a screen, and an algorithm deciding whether you get another month of antidepressants. The pilot, launched in early April 2026 by Y Combinator-backed startup Legion… Read more: Utah Just Let a Chatbot Prescribe Psychiatric Meds Without a Doctor

Someone Stole 400,000 KitKat Bars and the Internet Lost Its Mind Here is a sentence you probably did not expect to read today: someone hijacked a truck carrying 413,793 KitKat bars somewhere between central Italy and Poland, and the chocolate is still missing. Twelve metric tons of candy. Gone. Vanished into the European countryside like… Read more: Someone Stole 400,000 KitKat Bars and the Internet Turned It Into the Best Meme of 2026

A Gold-Plated Mixtape Floating Past Pluto In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft into the void. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 carried something besides sensors and cameras: a gold-plated copper record, 12 inches across, engraved with instructions for aliens on how to play it. Almost 50 years later, those records are still out there, drifting through… Read more: The Voyager Golden Record: What NASA Chose to Represent All of Humanity

OpenAI’s Sora was supposed to change everything. When it launched in late 2025, it was the AI video tool that would let anyone create Hollywood-quality clips from a text prompt. Filmmakers panicked. Disney signed a billion-dollar deal. The future of video had arrived. Six months later, Sora is dead. The app shuts down on April… Read more: OpenAI Killed Sora in Six Months. It Burned $15 Million a Day and Made Almost Nothing.

There Is a Skeleton at the Bottom of a Roman Well in Frankfurt. Next to It, a Bronze Goddess. Somewhere beneath the streets of Frankfurt, under a school playground in the Nordweststadt district, archaeologists have been quietly excavating one of the most significant Roman cult sites ever found in northern Europe. The sanctuary belongs to… Read more: There Is a Skeleton at the Bottom of a Roman Well in Frankfurt. Next to It, a Bronze Goddess.

One indie publisher’s catalog spans cozy sci-fi, 16th century exorcisms, sapphic romance, and cannibalism horror. How do these books even coexist?

Here is a question nobody asks at the doctor’s office: what does your voice sound like when your heart is failing? Turns out, it sounds different enough that an AI can catch it. The FDA just granted breakthrough device designation to Noah Labs for Vox, a piece of software that listens to five seconds of… Read more: This AI Listens to Five Seconds of Your Voice and Knows If Your Heart Is Failing

Somewhere in Wyoming, about 12,000 years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers sat around a fire and did something remarkably human. They gambled. Not with cards or chips or a roulette wheel, obviously. They used small, polished bones with lines carved on one side, tossing them the way you would toss a coin. Heads or tails,… Read more: Humans Have Been Gambling for 12,000 Years. We Just Found the Dice to Prove It.

On April 18, thousands of people will wake up at an unreasonable hour, stand in line outside a small shop they probably drive past every week, and hand over cash for a format the tech industry declared dead two decades ago. Record Store Day 2026 is almost here. And this year, it might be the… Read more: Record Store Day 2026 Has Liquid-Filled Vinyl, a Lost Slipknot Album, and 350 Reasons to Wake Up Early

An AI just found over 500 security holes in the software you use every day. Some of them let attackers take over your computer by tricking you into opening a file. And the kicker? The people who maintain that software can’t patch it fast enough. What Happened Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, the same AI model… Read more: An AI Found 500 Zero-Day Bugs in Open Source Software (and One Exploit That Took 8 Hours)

Someone Actually Got a PhD Studying French Fries Somewhere in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, a doctoral student named Yash Shah wakes up every morning, walks into a lab, and fries potatoes. Not for lunch. For science. His work, alongside food engineering professor Pawan Singh Takhar, just produced two published papers about making French fries less greasy without… Read more: Scientists Built a Microwave Fryer to Make French Fries Less Greasy (And the Physics Are Beautifully Absurd)

TikTok’s fibermaxxing trend turned eating vegetables into a competitive sport. Here’s what it says about us that we needed this to happen.

There is a company called Mercor. You probably haven’t heard of it. It’s worth $10 billion, it works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google, and until last week it held some of the most sensitive secrets in AI: not just data, but the actual blueprints for how the most powerful models on earth are trained.… Read more: Hackers Stole the AI Training Playbook (And It’s Going Up for Auction)

Scientists at Northwestern University figured out how to plant a specific problem into your dreams while you sleep, and the people who dreamed about it woke up and solved it at twice the normal rate. This is not a metaphor. This happened in a lab, in February 2026, with electrodes and soundtracks and 20 volunteers… Read more: Scientists Can Now Plant Problems Into Your Dreams. You Wake Up and Solve Them.

Starfield launched in September 2023 to the kind of reception that marketing teams describe as “mixed.” Not a disaster. Not a triumph. Just a massive, expensive space RPG that roughly half the internet thought was brilliant and the other half thought was a $70 loading screen simulator. Two and a half years later, Bethesda is… Read more: Starfield Is Getting a Second First Impression. April 7 Changes Everything.

An AI company said no to the Pentagon. The Pentagon called it a national security threat. A judge called the Pentagon’s move illegal. And now the White House is doubling down. The story of Anthropic versus the U.S. government is the most important AI story you’re probably not paying enough attention to. Not because of… Read more: Anthropic Said No to Autonomous Weapons. The Pentagon Called It a National Security Threat.

A Termite That Looks Like a Whale. No, Seriously. Somewhere in the canopy of a French Guiana rainforest, about eight meters above the ground, inside a dead tree, lives a termite that looks like a sperm whale. Not metaphorically. Not “if you squint.” The thing has an elongated head, hidden mandibles, and a body profile… Read more: Scientists Found a Termite That Looks Like a Sperm Whale. They Named It Moby Dick.

NASA’s Artemis II crew lifted off April 1st and are currently in high Earth orbit. Tonight’s trans-lunar injection burn commits them to the lunar flyby, the first crewed mission to the Moon in over 53 years.

Google dropped something today: Gemma 4, the newest generation of its open-weight model family, built from the same research stack that powers Gemini 3. Four models, Apache 2.0 license, and a claim that sounds like a direct challenge to the rest of the industry: “unprecedented intelligence per parameter.” Let’s break down what that actually means,… Read more: Google Gemma 4 Is Out Today and the Numbers Are Hard to Ignore

Pokemon Champions launches April 8 as a free-to-play competitive battler for Switch and Switch 2. It replaces Scarlet and Violet at official VGC events. The monetization details are conspicuously vague.

Let’s just sit with that number for a second. $122,000,000,000. One hundred and twenty-two billion dollars. Committed capital. Closed. On March 31, 2026, OpenAI announced the closing of its latest funding round and if you thought the previous rounds were impressive, this one makes them look like a crowdfunding campaign for a local coffee shop.… Read more: OpenAI Just Raised $122 Billion. Yes, Billion. With a B.

Today is April 1st. The one day of the year when every tech company press release requires a second read, every product announcement gets side-eyed, and your coworkers cannot be trusted with a cup of coffee near your keyboard. But April Fools’ Day in tech is actually a fascinating lens into internet culture. Some of… Read more: The Tech Pranks That Fooled the Whole Internet (and a Few That Accidentally Became Real)

Anthropic just did something clever. Instead of launching yet another AI model, the company took a feature that already works, Claude Code, and asked: what if people who don’t write code could have the same thing? The result is Claude Cowork, released Monday as a “research preview.” It lets Claude access folders on your computer,… Read more: Anthropic Just Turned Claude Into Your Coworker. Then Microsoft Put It Inside Office.

NASA is sending four astronauts around the Moon on Wednesday. The heat shield blew chunks on the last flight. A former Shuttle astronaut says the agency is repeating the mistakes that led to Columbia and Challenger.

A developer rebuilt a fully playable DOOM entirely in CSS. Every wall, floor, and enemy is an HTML div. No canvas, no WebGL. You can play it right now.

Remember Sora? The AI video generator that launched last fall to a tidal wave of hype, briefly hit #1 on the App Store, and convinced Disney to invest a billion dollars in OpenAI? It is dead. OpenAI announced Monday that it is winding down the standalone Sora app, its API, and effectively everything video-related it… Read more: OpenAI Just Killed Sora. Disney Walked Away. And Nobody Saw ‘Spud’ Coming.

Somewhere in a forest in Wisconsin, a bright yellow mushroom is doing something that no animal, plant, or virus has managed to do quite this effectively: it is quietly replacing an entire kingdom of organisms, one dead tree at a time. The golden oyster mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) was supposed to be lunch. Native to Asia,… Read more: A Pretty Yellow Mushroom Escaped From a Kitchen. Now It Is Eating North American Forests.

Somewhere between the protein aisle at your local grocery store and the deepest corners of TikTok, a generation of young men decided that the optimal meal looks exactly like something you would pour into a dog bowl. Welcome to “boy kibble,” the viral food trend that has Gen Z gym bros proudly filming themselves eating… Read more: Gen Z Men Are Eating Like Dogs on Purpose. It Is Called ‘Boy Kibble’ and It Is Everywhere.

Half of Americans under 30 have asked an AI chatbot for personal advice. A Stanford study just proved that’s a terrible idea. A paper published this week in Science, one of the most prestigious scientific journals on Earth, found that all major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, are systematically validating users even… Read more: Your AI Chatbot Is Making You a Worse Person. A Stanford Study Just Proved It.

What They Found (and Where They Found It) The Clarion-Clipperton Zone, or CCZ, is a 1.7-million-square-mile stretch of Pacific seafloor between Hawaii and Mexico. It sits about 13,000 feet down, which means permanent darkness, near-freezing temperatures, and crushing pressure that would flatten a submarine like a soda can. It is also, apparently, crawling with life… Read more: Scientists Just Found a New Branch of Life at the Bottom of the Ocean. Someone Else Just Filed a Permit to Dig It Up.

Minimalism is not about white walls or curated bookshelves. The actual principle is simpler, less aesthetic, and more useful than the lifestyle brand version.

Notification addiction is a design problem, not a willpower problem. Here is what actually helps, beyond the standard advice to just put your phone down.

In 2010, the standard advice for aspiring authors was: write something good, query agents for two years, get rejected 200 times, maybe sign with someone, wait 18 months for the book to come out, sell modestly, get dropped, do it again. The process selected for persistence as much as talent, which is one way to… Read more: The Self-Publishing Revolution Is Not What Anyone Expected

TikTok’s recommendation algorithm has one job: figure out what you want to watch next before you know you want to watch it. It is very good at this. So good that researchers, regulators, and the company itself have struggled to explain exactly how. The “For You Page,” the FYP, has become shorthand for a kind… Read more: How TikTok’s Algorithm Knows What You Want Before You Do (And Why That Is a Problem)

For most of the 20th century, neuroscience operated on a principle that seemed self-evident: adult brains do not make new neurons. You are born with what you have. Neurons die throughout your life and are not replaced. This was treated as established fact, taught in medical schools, and used as a framework for understanding neurodegenerative… Read more: Do Adult Brains Grow New Neurons? Scientists Have Been Arguing About This for 25 Years.

Jeff VanderMeer’s “Annihilation” came out in 2014. It was a slim book about a biologist entering a mysterious region called Area X, written in a voice that felt like it had been translated from a language that did not quite exist. It won the Nebula Award and sold modestly. Then Alex Garland adapted it into… Read more: Weird Fiction Is Having a Moment. Here Is What It Actually Is.

Discord launched in 2015 as a voice chat app for gamers. It was a direct competitor to TeamSpeak and Ventrilo, which were functional but ugly, and the pitch was simple: free, better sound, easy setup. The logo was a game controller. The color was blurple. The target audience was people playing League of Legends who… Read more: Discord Started as a Gaming App. Now It Is the Internet’s Community Layer.

The Konami Code started as a developer shortcut that shipped by accident in 1986. Here is the history of cheat codes and why they still matter.

Mantis shrimp have 16 types of photoreceptors. Humans have 3. Based on that fact alone, it was assumed for decades that mantis shrimp see a staggering number of colors, that their visual world must be an explosion of chromatic information beyond anything we can imagine. Science journalists loved this. The mantis shrimp became the internet’s… Read more: Mantis Shrimp Have 16 Eyes and We Had Them Completely Figured Out Wrong

Five years ago, Colleen Hoover was a moderately successful romance author who self-published her first book from a trailer in Texas. Her sales were fine. Her publisher was cautiously optimistic. Nobody predicted she would become the most influential author of the 2020s and spend years on the New York Times bestseller list simultaneously with her… Read more: BookTok Broke Publishing. The Publishers Are Still Figuring Out How.

In 2022, a French app called BeReal sent its users a notification at a random time each day: you have two minutes to post. No filters. No editing. Front camera and back camera at the same time, showing whatever you were actually doing. A generation raised on highly curated Instagram feeds found themselves posting lunch… Read more: BeReal Was Right About Everything. That Is Why Instagram Killed It.

Indie games have repeatedly done what big studios refused to try. This is the story of how small teams changed what games can be.

You can boil them, freeze them, bombard them with radiation, fire them into the vacuum of space, and they come back fine. Tardigrades, the tiny eight-legged animals also known as water bears or moss piglets, have survived all five mass extinction events on Earth. They are genuinely, verifiably close to indestructible. And until recently, scientists… Read more: Tardigrades Are Basically Indestructible. Scientists Are Finally Figuring Out Why.

Speedrunning turned single-player games into the most obsessive competitive sport you never expected. Here is how a glitch became a community.

Sleep debt accumulates quietly and weekend recovery does not fix it. Here is what 40 years of sleep research actually shows about cognitive impairment, metabolic damage, and what works.

Chrome, Safari, and Edge save your passwords to servers you do not control. Here is why that is a problem, and which password managers actually solve it.

The Dancing Baby was a 3D animation test file that escaped a software manual and became the first true internet meme. Here is how it actually happened.

Europe’s Right to Repair Directive is now in force. What it means for your cracked screen, dead battery, and the $1 billion industry that preferred you just bought a new device.

Christopher Poole built 4chan in 2003 on borrowed code. What followed shaped meme culture, anonymous activism, and the worst corners of the web.

The Flipper Zero got listed next to dynamite on NYC security forms. A closer look at what the $200 dolphin gadget can do, what it cannot do, and why governments keep panicking about it.

In 1998, a Canadian student built a tribute page for her hamster Hampton. It accidentally became one of the web’s first viral sensations. Here’s the story.

From a Tesla coil that sings to a guitar with 42 strings, these instruments push the definition of music to its breaking point. Some of them work extremely well.

White Lotus Season 3 ended with a divisive finale set in Thailand. Here is what worked, what did not, and whether the show is still worth your time.

Spotify’s recommendation algorithm is engineered to maximize your time on platform, not your musical growth. Here is what it does to your taste over time.

Ryan Coogler’s vampire horror film set in 1932 Mississippi made Oscar history with 16 nominations. Four wins later, it changed the Academy Awards forever.

Vinyl outsold CDs in the US for the first time since 1987. The reason is not just nostalgia. It is about how streaming broke the album and what listeners want back.

In 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced uncontrollably for weeks, some dying of exhaustion. The city’s solution was to hire musicians and build them a stage. It made everything worse.

In Longyearbyen, Norway, dying is banned because the permafrost preserves bodies indefinitely. Cats are also completely banned. And you must carry a rifle. This place is real.

In January 1919, a 58-foot tank of molasses exploded in Boston, sending a 15-foot wave of syrup through the streets at 35 mph. It killed 21 people, destroyed buildings, and left a city smelling of sweetness for decades. True story.

Tommy Shelby returned to Netflix on March 20 and broke charts in 50 countries. Here is what 25.3 million viewers found waiting for them.

In 1989, Will Wright convinced a publisher to release a game where you built a city and… that was it. No winning condition. No enemy to defeat. Just urban planning and zoning laws. SimCity shouldn’t have worked. It became a genre-defining hit. In 2000, he did it again with The Sims: a game about the… Read more: The Sims Creator Has Been Building a Game Inside Your Brain for 11 Years

The world’s top AI conference spent three chaotic days this week proving that science and geopolitics can no longer be kept apart.

In Q1 2026, Earth has been hit by an unusually large number of fireballs. A rock smashed through a Texas bedroom. 3,229 people watched one explode over Europe. Scientists are investigating.

Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection drops today with all seven DS-era games, quality-of-life upgrades, and a story about friendship that holds up surprisingly well nearly 20 years later.

Anthropic, the AI safety company that keeps telling us it’s being very careful about AI, accidentally left its most powerful AI model sitting in a publicly searchable data store on the open internet. The model is called Claude Mythos. It is, by Anthropic’s own admission, “by far the most powerful AI model we’ve ever developed.”… Read more: Anthropic’s Most Dangerous AI Leaked Itself (And It’s Called Claude Mythos)

The Great Meme Reset turned 2026 into a 2016 revival. Nyan Cat, Harambe, Snapchat filters. But the real story is about AI anxiety and a generation mourning the internet they grew up with.

T. Kingfisher’s Wolf Worm is the kind of Southern gothic folk horror that makes you squirm and grin at the same time. Released March 24, it might be her finest novel yet.

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Strife is out today, and it features a six-foot philosophically-inclined mantis shrimp as ship captain. The Children of Time series remains one of the best things in science fiction, and book four sounds like a real return to form.

You know what cozy gaming has been missing? Murder. Not metaphorical murder. Not the gentle tragedy of a turnip failing to grow. Actual, supernatural, someone-in-town-is-killing-people murder. Blumhouse just looked at Stardew Valley and thought: what if there was a serial killer? The result is Grave Seasons, and it just got a release date at today’s… Read more: Blumhouse Just Made a Farming Game Where Your Neighbors Might Be Eating You

Reflect Orbital wants FCC approval to launch 50,000 mirror satellites that would beam sunlight back to Earth at night. Astronomers, ecologists, and biologists have a few concerns.

Epic Games just announced over 1,000 layoffs despite Fortnite generating $4 billion a year. The story behind the paradox explains everything wrong with modern gaming.

March 2026 benchmarks put Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4, and Gemini 3.1 Pro within 1-2 points of each other across every major coding test. Here is what that actually means for developers who just want to ship code.

Andy Weir’s beloved sci-fi novel finally hits theaters with Ryan Gosling leading a 94% Rotten Tomatoes-rated adaptation. Here’s why both the book and film are worth your time.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder lands on Nintendo Switch 2 on March 26 with a new area, 12-player online, Rosalina as a playable character, and a whole lot of birthday energy. Here’s everything that’s new.

On Monday, March 23rd, Jensen Huang sat down with Lex Fridman for another one of their multi-hour conversations about the future of technology. And somewhere in the middle of it, Fridman asked a fairly simple question: how far are we from artificial general intelligence? Huang didn’t hesitate. “I think it’s now,” he said. “I think… Read more: Jensen Huang Says We’ve Achieved AGI. His Own Argument Proves We Haven’t.

Artemis II launches April 1, 2026 — the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years. Four astronauts, 10 days, 500,000 miles. Here’s everything you need to know about humanity’s return to the Moon.

No GPT-6. No Gemini Ultra 3. No dramatic Anthropic keynote. Just a Monday in March 2026 where half a dozen open source models quietly shipped — and at least three of them are better than what you’re paying for. If you only follow the big labs’ press releases, you missed it. But it happened, and… Read more: The Open Source AI Wave Nobody Saw Coming (But Everybody Should)

OpenAI plans to double its workforce to 8,000 employees by end of 2026 — hiring engineers, salespeople, and ‘technical ambassadors’ — even as the rest of Big Tech keeps laying people off. The irony is… substantial.